Chocolate Raspberry French Toast Casserole

This Chocolate Raspberry French Toast Casserole is your new favorite breakfast dish. Custard soaked bread is adorned with fresh raspberries, chocolate chips and a streusel like topping. But that’s not all! After baking, it’s drizzled with a raspberry syrup, a cloud of whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

It’s an ongoing joke in our house that our four year old is the resident carb queen. If given the opportunity, her three meals for the day would be waffles, french toast and pancakes. I’m serious! That’s what she ate on her birthday this year and she was beyond ecstatic that I said yes to her plan.

One of her favorite ways – and one of mine too! – is a french toast casserole that you prepare the night before. Perfect for when we have house guests as everything is done except for an hour of baking time the next morning. I also love that I’m an active participant in breakfast instead of resident french toast maker standing watch over the griddle as I prepare slice after slice.

As a love letter to my middle child, I decided to shake things up a bit and kick our traditional french toast casserole up a notch or three with two more of her favorites. Enter stage left, raspberries and chocolate.

Custard soaked bread is adorned with fresh raspberries, chocolate chips and a streusel like topping. But that’s not all! No, ma’am! After baking, it’s drizzled with a raspberry syrup, a cloud of whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

Shall I continue?

The raspberry syrup? Yep, that took me all of five minutes, one ingredient and a saucepan to create. I used a jar of Robert Rothschild Farm Red Raspberry Preserves and warmed it through until it was a syrup consistency. It’s then super easy to pour over your (gigantic) piece of french toast casserole.

And I must give props to my daughter for the whipped cream topping. As I was telling her what I was making, she casually mentioned that it would taste good with whipped cream on the top. You know what? She was right! I love the contrast in textures between the fluffy cream and the crunchy top layer of the bread.

But I’m going to take complete credit for the chocolate shavings addition. I mean, if I’m serving you chocolate for breakfast, I really should go all out, right?

Chocolate for breakfast…yes please! In all seriousness, this really looks delicious, and I love Robert Rothschild sauces…I have several in my fridge right now! I have not tried the raspberry preserves though! I have a feeling this is going to be a big hit in my house! Thanks for the recipe!